Depression/Anxiety

A new study has revealed that half of young people experience a problem with mental healthA new study has revealed that young people’s happiness has dropped to its lowest level since 2009. Conducted by the Prince’s Trust, the study monitored people aged between 16 and 25 and ranked their happiness levels in areas such as work and relationships via an index ranging from 0 to 100. The average figure was found to be 57, four points lower than…

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This Breathing Exercise Can Calm You Down in a Few Minutes “It’s totally private. Nobody knows you’re doing it.” Although venture capitalist and author Scott Amyx has given speeches before thousands of people at companies and organizations around the world, he’s often filled with anxiety before he goes onstage. To calm himself but also keep his mind clear, he regularly turns to a breathing practice he learned several years ago from a sports psychologist. By…

The researchers suggest knitting could ‘save the NHS funds’ By Rachel Moss Knitting could save the NHS vital funds because it leads to a healthier population, reducing depression and anxiety, slowing the onset of dementia and distracting from chronic pain, a new report has found. The findings, published by initiative Knit for Peace, offers an extensive review of previous studies into the physical and mental health benefits of knitting. Knit for Peace, which has a network of…

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we’ve all heard of yoga, meditation, and massage to de-stress, but what about Tapping? It’s zero risk, zero cost, and highly effective. I first heard about Tapping on the Megyn Kelly TODAY show on January 16, 2018. Megyn was joined by Adrienne Cerulo, who said a healing technique known as Tapping freed her from four years of excruciating pain, and Nick Ortner from The Tapping Solution. Cerulo said she was still pain-free after two years,…

Serotonin is a major regulator of mood and depression risk. Your disposition depicts exactly how you experience and infer the world around you. If your outlook is consistently dreadful, you are going to have a troublesome time. Yet, serotonin is much more than the “feel-good hormone.” It also sways sexual desire and helps us to remember. It is the precursor to melatonin, the neurotransmitter that allows us to sleep. Though we mainly consider serotonin as a neurotransmitter acting through…

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Lupus and Depression: It’s Not Just Sadness Those who struggle with lupus often experience overbearing symptoms of depression, which are usually tied to flares, and leave during remissions. Nevertheless, some of these symptoms can often remain even past the flare periods, and become a part of the patient’s daily life. In these cases, constant attention to these symptoms is vital when determining the possibility of depression due to the severity of lupus symptoms. Major depressive…

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Did you know that psychiatric disorders affect 26 percent of the adult population? That is more than 60 million Americans! One in 10 Americans takes an anti-depressant. In 2006 alone, expenditures on anti-depressants soared over $1.9 billion (source: Mark Hyman, MD, The UltraMind Solution, p. 11). I agree with Dr. Mark Hyman, as well as other functional medicine doctors, such as Dr. Kelly Brogan that there must be a better way. Not only do we…

In the 1970s, a truth was accidentally discovered about depression – one that was quickly swept aside, because its implications were too inconvenient, and too explosive. American psychiatrists had produced a book that would lay out, in detail, all the symptoms of different mental illnesses, so they could be identified and treated in the same way across the United States. It was called the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. In the latest edition, they laid out…

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And researchers hope it could treat the condition in days. By Catherine Pearson It has taken decades for the medical establishment to recognize the vast scope of postpartum depression, or PPD. Conservative estimates say 11 percent of women become depressed at some point in their first year of motherhood; others put that figure at closer to 25 percent. And that’s just the women who seek help. Likely, the numbers are greatly undercounted — according to one study, fewer…

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by johann hari When you are depressed and anxious, you get hit by two kinds of stigma. People will often say that you’re being weak or self-indulgent and just need to snap out of it. But there’s a stigma that’s even worse than that: You tell yourself the same message. When I first became depressed, as a teenager, I felt that pain was leaking out of me and I couldn’t stop it. I explained this…